Sonia was standing in dejection, looking intently out of the window, but from it she could see nothing but the unwhitewashed blank wall of the next house.

He had been partly, but only partly, unintentionally the cause of a murder and when he knew that he had given the murderers the opportunity, he sank into dejection, it got on his mind and turned his brain, he began imagining things and he persuaded himself that he was the murderer.

"It was my mistake, too, not to have given them money," he thought, as he returned dejectedly to Lebeziatnikov’s room, "and why on earth was I such a Jew?

The great point is that everything now is going to be different, is going to be broken in two," he cried, suddenly returning to his dejection.

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She is dejected but trying to look cheerful.

She is feeling dejected, but I think her world will look better after a good night’s sleep.